Archive Management on Mac

Commander One is more than just a file manager. It’s your reliable archiver for macOS that works with dozens of popular formats, including uncommon types like TAR, TBZ, and TGZ. The app allows you to easily create, extract, edit, and manage archives the way you want.

Archive management

Supported Archives

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Extract, create, and modify

With these formats, you get full control over your archives. Open and create them, copy or move files, delete unnecessary data, edit content, search within, browse the structure, and even add new folders directly inside the archive.

Supported formats:

FREE PLAN: .zip 

PRO PLAN: .7z, .txz(.tar.xz), .tlz(.tar.lzma), .tbz(.tar.bz), .tgz(.tar.gz), .tz(.tar.z)
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Extract and modify

You can open and work with existing archives, including editing their contents, moving files, deleting items, and searching through them. However, creating new archives in these formats is not supported.

Supported formats:

PRO PLAN: .ipa, .apk, .jar, .ear, .war, .zipx, .xpi, .tar, .cab, .bz, .bz2, .taz, .z, .gz, .lzma, .xz, .tb, .tb2, .tbz2(.tar.bz2)
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Read-only

For these formats, the functionality is limited to extraction and content search. Modifying or creating new archives of these formats is not possible.

Supported formats:

PRO PLAN: .rar, .xip, .xar, .iso, .cab

Key Features

Commander One functionality varies across formats. Here are some examples of the features available for different archive types.

Selecting the compression level

Adjust the compression level for supported archive formats to find the optimal balance between speed and archive size.
Select the compression level

Search in RAR archives

Search for files inside archives without unpacking. Available not only for RAR but also for a number of other formats.
Search in archive

Preview TarGz archive files

Find out what's inside the archive before unpacking. This feature is available for TarGz and other supported formats.
Preview archive files

Password-protect 7z archives

The password protection feature is available for 7z and some other archive formats that support this feature.
Protect archive with password

How to compress to ZIP

1

Download, install and launch Commander One.

Download Commander One
2

Select the files you want to compress, right-click them, and choose “Compress selected file(s)”. Alternatively, you can also use the shortcut Ctrl + F5.

Compress selected files
3
If you want to customize the archive settings, press Ctrl + Alt + F5.
Archive settings
4

Click OK to start the archiving. Once the process is complete, the archive will appear in the same pane.

Archiving process

PRO Pack feature list

Connection Manager

With Commander One, you can combine all your cloud storages and remote services in one app. Work with files directly without downloading them to your Mac and save time switching between different apps.

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Dropbox

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FTP

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SFTP

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Google Drive

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Amazon S3

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OneDrive

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Backblaze

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OpenStack

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Box

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MEGA

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WebDAV

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pCloud

File Transfer

Commander One makes file transfer rather intuitive. Connect Android, MTP, and iOS devices and manage the content directly without using additional apps. Speed ​​up your work and forget about complicated data exchange methods. note: MAS version has no iOS device support.
  • MTP
  • iOS
  • Android

Terminal Emulator

Commander One offers quick access to the command line right in your file manager. Use all the familiar macOS Terminal commands without opening an additional window. Convenient, fast, and always at hand. note: MAS version has no Terminal emulator feature.